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ARCHLGY 21Q: Eight Great Archaeological Sites in Europe (CLASSICS 21Q)

Preference to sophomores. Focus is on excavation, features and finds, arguments over interpretation, and the place of each site in understanding the archaeological history of Europe. Goal is to introduce the latest archaeological and anthropological thought, and raise key questions about ancient society. The archaeological perspective foregrounds interdisciplinary study: geophysics articulated with art history, source criticism with analytic modeling, statistics interpretation. A web site with resources about each site, including plans, photographs, video, and publications, is the basis for exploring.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, Writing 2
Instructors: ; Shanks, M. (PI)

ARCHLGY 97A: Curatorial Internship (ARCHLGY 297A, ARTHIST 97)

Opportunity for students to pursue an internship at the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) and receive training and experience in museum curation. Curatorial interns conduct focused object research in preparation for upcoming exhibitions to go on view at the Stanford Archaeology Center.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 1-5
Instructors: ; Raad, D. (PI)

ARCHLGY 97B: Collections Management Internship (ARCHLGY 297B)

Opportunity for students to pursue an internship at the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) and receive training and experience in museum collections management. Collections management interns learn how to care for museum collections, including re-housing, storage, cataloging, and managing the movement and inventory of collections.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 1-5
Instructors: ; Raad, D. (PI)

ARCHLGY 97C: Archival Internship (ARCHLGY 297C)

Opportunity for students to pursue an internship at the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) and receive training and experience in archival processing. Archival interns analyze, organize, describe, and digitize historic and current museum records, photographs, and related documents.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 1-5
Instructors: ; Raad, D. (PI)

ARCHLGY 97D: Provenance Research Internship (ARCHLGY 297D)

Opportunity for students to pursue an internship at the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) and receive training and experience in provenance research. Provenance research interns look into early collectors and research when, where, and how objects in the collections were acquired.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 1-5
Instructors: ; Raad, D. (PI)

ARCHLGY 97E: Public Outreach Internship (ARCHLGY 297E)

Opportunity for students to pursue an internship at the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) and receive training and experience in community outreach and museum education. Public outreach interns extend the Archaeology Collection's impact beyond campus by drafting social media posts and contributing to K-12 engagement and other community outreach initiatives.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 1-5
Instructors: ; Raad, D. (PI)

ARCHLGY 103: History of Archaeological Thought (ANTHRO 103B)

Introduction to the history of archaeology and the forms that the discipline takes today, emphasizing developments and debates over the past five decades. Historical overview of culture, historical, processual and post-processual archaeology, and topics that illustrate the differences and similarities in these theoretical approaches. Satisfies Archaeology WIM requirement.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors: ; Trivedi, M. (PI)

ARCHLGY 121B: "The Will to Adorn": An Anthropology of Dress (AFRICAAM 121B, ANTHRO 121B, ANTHRO 221B, ARCHLGY 221B)

This seminar explores sartorial practices as a means for examining formations of identities and structural inequalities across space and time. Building off the definition of dress, pulled from Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins and Joanne B. Eicher, this course examines sartorial practices as social-cultural practices, shaped by many intersecting operations of power and oppression including racism, sexism, and classism, that involve modifications of the corporal form (i.e., scarification, body piercings, and hair alteration) as well as all three-dimensional supplements added to the body (i.e., clothing, hair combs, and jewelry). The emphasis on intersecting operations of power and oppression within this definition of dress draws on Kimberlé Crenshaw's conceptualization of intersectionality. Through case studies and examples from various parts of the world, we will explore multiple sources of data - documentary, material, and oral - that have come to shape the study of dress. We examine how dress intersects with facets of identity, including race, age, ethnicity, sexuality, and class.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

ARCHLGY 122: What's New in Australian Archaeology (ANTHRO 122B)

New techniques, new questions, and new approaches are changing our understanding of more than 50,000 years of human life in Australia. When did people first come to Australia? How did humans adapt to the unique, and changing, environment? At the same time, public debates are pushing archaeologists and heritage professionals to be more accountable, leading to questions like, what are the best practices for community-led archaeology? How should Australians commemorate the settler past? What about repatriation? This course will introduce the archaeology of Australia by exploring the latest research and debates playing out in the academic and public spheres. No prior archaeological experience is required.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: ; Connor, K. (PI)

ARCHLGY 134: Introduction to Museum Practice (ANTHRO 134D, ARCHLGY 234, ARTHIST 284B)

This is a hands-on museum practicum course open to students of all levels that will culminate in a student-curated exhibit. It entails a survey of the range of museum responsibilities and professions including the purpose, potential, and challenges of curating collections. While based at the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC), we will visit other campus collections and sites. Students will plan and realize an exhibition at the Stanford Archaeology Center, gaining skills in collections management, research, interpretation, and installation.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE | Repeatable 3 times (up to 15 units total)
Instructors: ; Raad, D. (PI)

ARCHLGY 137: Political Exhumations: Killing Sites in Comparative Perspective (ANTHRO 137D, ARCHLGY 237, DLCL 237, HISTORY 229C, HISTORY 329C, REES 237C)

The course discusses the politics and practices of exhumation of individual and mass graves. The problem of exhumations will be considered as a distinct socio-political phenomenon characteristic of contemporary times and related to transitional justice. The course will offer analysis of case studies of political exhumations of victims of the Dirty War in Argentina, ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia, the Holocaust, communist violence in Poland, the Rwandan genocide, the Spanish Civil War, and the war in Ukraine. The course will make use of new interpretations of genocide studies, research of mass graves, such as environmental and forensic approaches.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: ; Domanska, E. (PI)

ARCHLGY 143: Excavating the University

In this course, we will explore the university campus as a material and political space, drawing on research from historical archaeology and allied disciplines. We will examine the unequal and unjust histories of U.S. university campuses, including how they have been implicated in historical colonialism and slavery, how they continue to be enmeshed in a variety of forms of social inequality, and how they can be spaces of transformative social change. We will also get glimpses into Stanford's past with a campus archaeologist and the archaeology collections curator. This course will be introductory level/general education, with no prerequisites.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: ; Heath-Stout, L. (PI)

ARCHLGY 144: The Archaeology of Now: Material Cultures of the Contemporary (ARCHLGY 244)

The contemporary world is full of stuff: commodities, trash, pollution, ruins of defunct infrastructures, discarded from the ongoing construction of new infrastructures, and so on. Archaeology has long analyzed such materials to understand the past. This class explores a recent move in archaeology to use the same tools to understand the contemporary era. What can we learn about ourselves by asking archaeological questions of the present, and applying archaeological techniques to the detritus of contemporary life?
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5

ARCHLGY 152: Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Past and Present (ANTHRO 152A)

Over the centuries, the progressing urbanization has led to humans' gradual displacement from nature, especially from the parts conventionally considered unpredictable and dangerous - such as wildlife. When the distance between wildlife habitats and human development shrinks, their contradictory needs collide, and conflict becomes inevitable. This course explores how human-wildlife conflicts (HWC) have shaped human-animal relationships in the past and present, and how ongoing climate change exacerbates them. In this class, we will investigate the underlying social, cultural, and ecological differences fueling disagreements between stakeholder groups entangled with wildlife in their daily routines. The course reviews the literature on the most common types of HWC through global case studies, first in the past and then in modern times. The discussed conflicts include the introduction of invasive species, wildlife diseases, habitat loss, species extinction, predatory species' adaptations to human-dominated landscapes, ecotourism development, the impact of human conflicts on wildlife populations, and others. Interactions with animals encompass many aspects of human lives and a myriad of academic disciplines, and this class emphasizes that social factors cannot be ignored in attempts to solve HWC. This class intersects anthropology, animal studies, political ecology, wildlife management, and archaeology. It will combine lectures, reading discussions, guest lectures, and interactive exercises. The course can be taken for 3, 4, or 5 units.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: ; Tomczyk, W. (PI)

ARCHLGY 193A: Archaeology and Environmental Aesthetics (CLASSICS 193, CLASSICS 293)

What do archaeologists have to say about long-term human relationships with the environment? How might archaeology inform our understanding of current concerns with agency and climate change? In this seminar we will explore the key concepts and concerns of a transdisciplinary field of environmental aesthetics. Taking in recent debates about the ontology and temporality of building archaeological knowledge, we will critically interrogate concepts such as land and landscape, nature and culture, dwelling and lifeworld, as a means of developing an archaeology beyond a science-humanities dualism that engages actively with the challenge of changing relationships with the environment.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: ; Shanks, M. (PI)

ARCHLGY 195: Independent Study/Research

Students conducting independent study and or research with archaeology faculty members.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 15 units total)

ARCHLGY 221B: "The Will to Adorn": An Anthropology of Dress (AFRICAAM 121B, ANTHRO 121B, ANTHRO 221B, ARCHLGY 121B)

This seminar explores sartorial practices as a means for examining formations of identities and structural inequalities across space and time. Building off the definition of dress, pulled from Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins and Joanne B. Eicher, this course examines sartorial practices as social-cultural practices, shaped by many intersecting operations of power and oppression including racism, sexism, and classism, that involve modifications of the corporal form (i.e., scarification, body piercings, and hair alteration) as well as all three-dimensional supplements added to the body (i.e., clothing, hair combs, and jewelry). The emphasis on intersecting operations of power and oppression within this definition of dress draws on Kimberlé Crenshaw's conceptualization of intersectionality. Through case studies and examples from various parts of the world, we will explore multiple sources of data - documentary, material, and oral - that have come to shape the study of dress. We examine how dress intersects with facets of identity, including race, age, ethnicity, sexuality, and class.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5

ARCHLGY 234: Introduction to Museum Practice (ANTHRO 134D, ARCHLGY 134, ARTHIST 284B)

This is a hands-on museum practicum course open to students of all levels that will culminate in a student-curated exhibit. It entails a survey of the range of museum responsibilities and professions including the purpose, potential, and challenges of curating collections. While based at the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC), we will visit other campus collections and sites. Students will plan and realize an exhibition at the Stanford Archaeology Center, gaining skills in collections management, research, interpretation, and installation.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 15 units total)
Instructors: ; Raad, D. (PI)

ARCHLGY 237: Political Exhumations: Killing Sites in Comparative Perspective (ANTHRO 137D, ARCHLGY 137, DLCL 237, HISTORY 229C, HISTORY 329C, REES 237C)

The course discusses the politics and practices of exhumation of individual and mass graves. The problem of exhumations will be considered as a distinct socio-political phenomenon characteristic of contemporary times and related to transitional justice. The course will offer analysis of case studies of political exhumations of victims of the Dirty War in Argentina, ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia, the Holocaust, communist violence in Poland, the Rwandan genocide, the Spanish Civil War, and the war in Ukraine. The course will make use of new interpretations of genocide studies, research of mass graves, such as environmental and forensic approaches.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: ; Domanska, E. (PI)

ARCHLGY 244: The Archaeology of Now: Material Cultures of the Contemporary (ARCHLGY 144)

The contemporary world is full of stuff: commodities, trash, pollution, ruins of defunct infrastructures, discarded from the ongoing construction of new infrastructures, and so on. Archaeology has long analyzed such materials to understand the past. This class explores a recent move in archaeology to use the same tools to understand the contemporary era. What can we learn about ourselves by asking archaeological questions of the present, and applying archaeological techniques to the detritus of contemporary life?
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5

ARCHLGY 297A: Curatorial Internship (ARCHLGY 97A, ARTHIST 97)

Opportunity for students to pursue an internship at the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) and receive training and experience in museum curation. Curatorial interns conduct focused object research in preparation for upcoming exhibitions to go on view at the Stanford Archaeology Center.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 1-5
Instructors: ; Raad, D. (PI)

ARCHLGY 297B: Collections Management Internship (ARCHLGY 97B)

Opportunity for students to pursue an internship at the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) and receive training and experience in museum collections management. Collections management interns learn how to care for museum collections, including re-housing, storage, cataloging, and managing the movement and inventory of collections.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 1-5
Instructors: ; Raad, D. (PI)

ARCHLGY 297C: Archival Internship (ARCHLGY 97C)

Opportunity for students to pursue an internship at the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) and receive training and experience in archival processing. Archival interns analyze, organize, describe, and digitize historic and current museum records, photographs, and related documents.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 1-5
Instructors: ; Raad, D. (PI)

ARCHLGY 297D: Provenance Research Internship (ARCHLGY 97D)

Opportunity for students to pursue an internship at the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) and receive training and experience in provenance research. Provenance research interns look into early collectors and research when, where, and how objects in the collections were acquired.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 1-5
Instructors: ; Raad, D. (PI)

ARCHLGY 297E: Public Outreach Internship (ARCHLGY 97E)

Opportunity for students to pursue an internship at the Stanford University Archaeology Collections (SUAC) and receive training and experience in community outreach and museum education. Public outreach interns extend the Archaeology Collection's impact beyond campus by drafting social media posts and contributing to K-12 engagement and other community outreach initiatives.
Terms: Win, Spr | Units: 1-5
Instructors: ; Raad, D. (PI)

ARCHLGY 299: Independent Study/Research

Independent Study/Research
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 10 units total)
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